Omaha Steaks
reviews and complaints

I have placed exactly one order with this company and have received incessant phone calls at all hours of the day, from early morning to as late as 9 pm. I am on the Do Not Call list, but, yes, I placed one order, so I guess I'm fair game. Their products are mediocre and phenomenally overpriced, but their marketing practices are nothing short of harassment. I will never order anything else.

The first time I every tried Omaha Steaks (4 years ago), it was a gift sent to me. The fillet mignon was tender and easy to cook, and the taste was good. However, since then something has happened to the quality of the meat, and size of the steaks are smaller. My recent order I found the sirloins to be tiny...like 3 oz each! The hamburger patties were very greasy and smelled bad when cooking. The bacon wrapped fillets are around 4 oz, which is very small. You need two or three of them just to equal a decent size steak. I figured out the price per pound with shipping for their steaks comes to something like $30 per pound! Also, they hound me to death with calls to my home at least once per week, sometimes more. and they send mailings to me constantly...even though I told them to stop! It's very annoying to be bothered constantly by this company. I won't be ordering from them again. I can find really good steaks locally for around $10-$12 per pound and not have to deal with being harassed by the butcher when I'm at home!

My wife ordered me a package of various steaks for my birthday. On arrival I inspected the meat and to my surprise the steaks were no more than 1/2 inch thick and the price per LBS was $20.00. I was very dissatisfied with the cut of meats. For half the price I could have went to Sam’s or Costco and got twice the quantity and at least the same quality of meat. Buyers beware especially in this economy.

On December 7, 2010 I saw a christmas gift assortment from Omaha Steaks advertised on a popular morning show for a fraction of the retail cost which included a $20.00 e-Reward certificate with each purchase. I purchased a gift assortment for myself and later purchased one for my mom. The e Reward code for my mom's purchase was sent however I did not receive the code for my purchase of several hundred dollars. I called customer service and was told that it take 48 hrs after the order ships to receive the $20.00 Reward. It seemed a bit odd considering I had received the code for my mom's purchase but i waited the 2 days which turned into a week. I emailed regarding the issue and was given several conflicting responses from Omaha Steaks Customer Care reps: A Jones and J Davis. I was told the eReward code had been sent already to my email, I said I have no record of receiving my email please resend the original communication. I then received the response that, we sent it to a different email address, which was connected to my mom's order. I explained it was my mom's order however it didn't matter because now it was one eReward per household. This was two completely separate orders, households, emails, shipping addresses etc. The common factor for each order was I paid for them, my mom does use a computer so of course I made both purchases. Omaha Steaks apparently cross referenced my name/info for some unknown reason, possibly to defraud customers of advertised offers. The orders were placed primarily due to the offer including the $20.00 e-Reward code. The meat was not exactly the quality I was expecting considering the price of their products. BUYER BEWARE! PURCHASE FROM OMAHA STEAKS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Ordered one time then asked to have all emails and snail mail stopped. Told that will take up to 90 days to stop the snail mail, and in the meantime, I receive 1 to 2 mailings per week which I throw away. You know that the 90 day time period is totally wasteful. Why send ads to people who have said that they don't want it, and simply throw it away.

Take my advice, just get your meat from the local butcher. It's fresher, cheaper, and they don't bombard you with wasteful advertising. By the way, when I called back to plead with them to stop sending the mailings, I was told that there was nothing that they could do to stop it until the 90 day period was up. I told them I would be sure to post my views of their advertising policies as a warning to others. I got another mailing today, ripped it up without opening it, sat down and wrote this warning to other potential victims of their snail mail blitz techniques. DON'T ORDER FROM THEM!

I received an email and snail mail, both within a couple of days of each other. The email gave 15% off any purchase including SALE Prices. The paper I recived advertised a package for $49.99. When I tried to use the coupon code, they said it was not applicable because it was an OFFER, not a SALE. The same package of the internet was considerably more expensive. As a result, they give you 15% off, but it is 15% off a much higher price. Take a close look at the prices before you buy! Bad business!

Ordered from omahasteaks.com wasn't pleased with the product(s) and when i called customer service, they got huffy. i asked for a supervisor and she was being huffy too.

even though they sent a $10 gift card they acted as if they were doing me the favor. don't do me a favor w/ a piss poor attitude and expect me to continue to buy your product (gift card or not)?

i wrote the president of the company and when jerry called in response to my letter, it was jessica who took the call. she was curt and told me you've already been helped w/ your issues. then why call me with more lousy service and waste my time? is this what writing the president of the company gets you - lousy customer service? won't ever be buying from omaha steaks ever again.

I had a Omaha Steaks retail store in my general area but it closed about two months ago. Since then I have been bombarded with mail telling me that I could go to two of their stores in another state and receive fantastic bargains. Today I received an envelope that must have cost them two dollars to mail and it had a flyer inside advertising "Free Shipping" if I would go to their stores in this other state and place my order. It is at least 50 miles to these other stores so that would mean 200 miles of driving just to place my order, go home, and come back again at a later date.

I called Omaha Steaks today and asked about this and was no more than 30 seconds into my tale of woe and the guy hung up on me after asking me "when are you going to place your order"? I called back, got a different guy, who at least listened to me, and said "its only 22 miles to (the other stores). I asked him if he was aware that the Potomac River seperated the two states and he had no idea what I was talking about. At that time he got incredibly offensive and said that he didn't have time to talk to me if I wasn't going to place an order. Beware. Do not deal with this company. They hire rude and impatient people.

The Oamaha steaks I received as a gift for Christmas were pretty bad...don't bother with the hype. Get your meat fresh from the market...honest!